Apparently Sansa Stark And Jon Snow Are Never Going To Hook Up, You Sickos

Spoilers for Game of Thrones season six.

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This year the Game of Thrones panel at San Diego Comic Con was a mix of delightful insight and details that made the cast seem like a fantastic bunch of creeps. It was a stark difference to the year before, when after a particularly controversial season most of the crowd questions were about the show’s mishandling of sexual assault. This year they mainly talked about shotting vodka before the panel, and which characters should have (consensual) sex.

First up showrunners Benioff and Weiss did some admin, and explained that season seven will only be seven episodes because “winter is here” in the Game of Thrones universe and so they can only shoot during particular months of the year. “We shoot in places where there are trees, and we wait for the leaves to fall off, so we’re actually waiting to shoot later in the year,” Benioff said. “And that means we don’t finish shooting until February.”

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Liam Cunningham, who plays fan favourite Davos, told the crowd that he was just as shocked as the audience when Shireen Baratheon was burnt alive in season five. “You would have heard the clang of my jaw hitting the ground when I read it,” he said. “These guys keep taking the people I like working with away from me.” However he also mentioned that he gave Shireen’s stag figurine — the clue that helps Davos figure out that it was Melisandre who sort-of killed her — to his real daughter and asked her to hold onto it whenever she watched the show. Then he let her watch the burning alive episode all by herself? “I felt like the worst dad in the world,” Cunnigham said, laughing like a maniac.

The most exciting part of the panel however, was Sophie Turner (Sansa) discussing her badass plot trajectory in season six. She talked about why she reckons that Sansa didn’t tell Jon about Littlefinger’s army before the Battle of Winterfell (“Sansa didn’t tell Jon because she wanted all the credit”) and if now that it has been confirmed that Sansa and Jon are not brother and sister, would they ever… you know.

“Jon likes redheads, but Sansa and Jon have grown up together. They may as well be siblings,” she said on the panel. “They have that sibling rivalry. I don’t know, but I swear to god, David and Dan, if you make anything happen, I’m going to kill you.”

Case closed, you sickos!